The New William Faulkner Studies

The volume situates Faulkner within a range of current and emerging critical fields, such as African American studies and modernist studies.

Sarah Gleeson-White (Edited by), Pardis Dabashi (Edited by)

9781108840897, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 7 July 2022

280 pages
23.5 x 15.7 x 2.3 cm, 0.56 kg

William Faulkner remains one of the most important writers of the twentieth century, and Faulkner Studies offers up seemingly endless ways to engage anew questions and problems that continue to occupy literary studies into the twenty-first century, and beyond the compass of Faulkner himself. His corpus has proved particularly accommodating of a range of perspectives and methodologies that include Black studies, visual culture studies, world literatures, modernist studies, print culture studies, gender and sexuality studies, sound studies, the energy humanities, and much else. The fifteen essays collected in The New William Faulkner Studies charts these developments in Faulkner scholarship over the course of this new century and offers prospects for further interrogation of his oeuvre.

Part I. Approaches: 1. Faulkner and Formalism Sebastien Fanzun
2. Faulkner and modernist gothic Dolores Flores-Silva and Keith Cartwright
3. '[T]he critic must leave the Western hemisphere': Faulkner and World Literature Jenna Grace Sciuto
4. Faulkner and print culture John N. Duvall
5. Faulkner after Morrison Catherine Gunther Kodat
6. Faulkner's acoustics, or minor sound Julie Beth Napolin
Part II. Cultures: 7. Queering Faulkner: Content, Structure, Failure Alexander Howard
8. Faulkner and Women Lisa Hinrichsen
9. 'A Shape to fill a lack': Faulkner and Indigenous Studies Eric Gary Anderson
10. On Thingification: Faulkner and Afropessimism Joanna Davis-McElligatt
Part III. Interfaces: 11. William Faulkner, Public intellectual Robert Jackson
12. Faulkner and screen culture Stefan Solomon
13. Faulkner and modern war Michael Zeitlin
14. Fossil-fuel Faulkner: Energy and modernity in the US South Jay Watson
Afterword: 'The wrong people,' Filling in the – – – – – – , and New Faulkner studies Taylor Hagood.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]